Chapter Summaries

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Lin Fan discovers high-purity hematite and nearby coking coal, then mobilizes more than a thousand refugees to build an ironworks.
• Over several days, he makes firebricks from river clay and quartz sand, improves the furnace’s water-powered bellows, and directs construction without relying on supernatural powers.
• By the seventh day, the enormous blast furnace is ready. Lin Fan has the molten iron refined in crucibles to control its carbon content, producing the first crude steel ingots.
• Confident that steel can withstand explosive pressure, he declares that the age has changed and prepares to challenge the powerful Martial Soul Avatar.
• At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Yu Yuanzhen learns that Yu Xiaogang—his estranged son—has been imprisoned and tortured by Xue Ye’s forces. Seeing Lin Fan’s achievements on the Sky Screen, Yu Yuanzhen reflects on having rejected his son years earlier.
• Yu Yuanzhen orders a secret reconnaissance of the Imperial City Prison and announces that he will go to Heaven Dou City to confront Xue Ye.

Character developments

• Lin Fan demonstrates relentless determination and practical ingenuity, turning ordinary labor and knowledge into a major technological breakthrough. His success sharpens his confidence and resolve to confront supernatural power with technology.
• Yu Yuanzhen shifts from regretful reflection to decisive action. Though he once cast Yu Xiaogang out as a failure, he now asserts his family’s claim and commits to rescuing him.

Character interactions

• Lin Fan commands and works alongside the refugees, pushing them through the demanding construction and steelmaking process.
• Yu Yuanzhen’s exchange with his elders reveals their uncertainty about whether to intervene. He silences hesitation by insisting that, whatever Yu Xiaogang’s faults, outsiders have no right to torture a member of the Yu family.
• The Sky Screen’s image of Lin Fan prompts Yu Yuanzhen to confront the consequences of his past rejection, linking father and son through their striking resemblance.

Significant themes

• Technology versus supernatural power: Lin Fan’s steelworks represents industrial knowledge challenging a world governed by martial and magical strength.
• Labor and ingenuity: The breakthrough comes through collective effort, experimentation, and perseverance rather than divine assistance.
• Regret and missed potential: Yu Yuanzhen wonders whether his treatment of Yu Xiaogang helped bury his son’s abilities.
• Family loyalty and pride: Yu Yuanzhen’s rescue mission is driven both by paternal feeling and by the belief that the sect must defend its own.

Plot points and events

• In the Heaven Dou Empire’s Royal Death Prison, Emperor Xue Ye visits the tortured, incoherent Yu Xiaogang. When Xiaogang mutters “Tack Town,” Xue Ye connects it to Lin Fan’s Sky Screen remarks about producing weapons there.
• Convinced the Sky Screen’s world mirrors their own, Xue Ye suspects the real Tack Town may contain the same rare resources—or even a passage between worlds. He orders the town and its surrounding area sealed and searched, with instructions to seize any Hematite or Saltpeter and contain any spatial rift.
• Three thousand elite Royal Dragon Soul Guards secretly ride for Tack Town.
• In the Sky Screen’s world, Lin Fan is actually mining Hematite and Coking Coal in the mountains, building an industrial base around an earthen Blast Furnace. He believes the remote location will keep him safe while he develops machinery and produces steel.
• Lin Fan casually boasts that the mountains near Tack Town will let him build enough industry to defeat Spirit Hall. The real-world guards hear the broadcast, interpret it as confirmation that the mountains hold his source of power, and abandon secrecy to race there before dawn.

Character developments

• Xue Ye regains his composure and shows the strategic instincts of a ruler under pressure. His deductions are speculative, but his fear drives him to act decisively.
• Lin Fan remains confident and focused on building his industrial capacity. He does not realize that his private-sounding gaming commentary is audible across the real world.
• The Royal Dragon Soul Guard commander shifts from a covert mission to an urgent, open race after hearing Lin Fan’s broadcast.
• Yu Xiaogang has been tortured into near-total incoherence and inadvertently provides the clue that sets the hunt in motion.

Significant themes

• Information has consequences: Lin Fan’s offhand remarks expose his location and trigger a military response.
• Fear and misinterpretation: Xue Ye treats uncertain parallels between worlds as grounds for extreme action.
• Industrial power versus traditional strength: Lin Fan believes resources and machinery can overcome powerful Soul Masters.
• Escalation and unintended consequences: Attempts to suppress or control the threat instead push both worlds toward confrontation.

Character interactions

• Xue Ye consults his officials and interrogators, dismisses their caution, and commands the imperial guards to investigate Tack Town.
• Lin Fan speaks to himself while working, unaware that both ordinary people and powerful figures in the real world can hear him.
• The guard commander hears Lin Fan’s boast, agrees with Xue Ye’s theory, and redirects his troops into a desperate rush toward the mountains.

Key events

• With Emperor Xue Ye absent from court, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe reassures ministers that the emperor is recovering and the empire remains stable.
• Alone, Xue Qinghe drops the benevolent princely façade, revealing herself as Qian Renxue. She studies two reports: Xue Ye’s secret order sending the elite Royal Dragon Soul Guard to seal off Tack Town’s mountains, and a Spirit Hall intelligence report. Both connect the crisis to Tack Town.
• Watching Lin Fan labor in the Sky Screen, Qian Renxue dismisses his mining and furnace-building as the desperate efforts of a cornered man. She is nevertheless unsettled by reports that her mother, Pope Bibi Dong, wept over him, and wonders whether Yu Xiaogang is a fraud or someone who can foresee the world’s fate.
• Summoned by Xue Ye, Qian Renxue learns that he suspects the Sky Screen’s geography corresponds to the real world and that Yu Xiaogang may have found something valuable near Tack Town. He has sent 3,000 elite Soul King-level guards there, bypassing the Ministry of War because he distrusts the army.
• Xue Ye assigns her two tasks: secretly retrieve the Royal Academy’s records on Tack Town and the surrounding region, and inspect the Imperial City’s four gates the next morning to bolster troop morale amid growing unrest and desertions.

Character developments and interactions

• Qian Renxue expertly shifts between her public role as a reassuring, dutiful crown prince and her private identity as a cold, calculating infiltrator. Her reaction to Bibi Dong’s tears reveals complicated, unresolved feelings about her mother.
• Emperor Xue Ye appears exhausted and increasingly isolated, but remains decisive. He trusts Qian Renxue’s judgment and relies on her both for secret intelligence gathering and public leadership.
• Their exchange is respectful and guarded: Qian Renxue follows his orders and offers concern for his health, while Xue Ye praises her conduct but does not reveal everything he suspects.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Qian Renxue’s benevolent public persona conceals her true identity and intentions.
• Fear and political instability: The emperor’s secrecy, unreliable troops, unrest, and the elite guard’s deployment show a realm under pressure.
• Misreading the Sky Screen: Qian Renxue sees Lin Fan’s work as mere survival, while Xue Ye treats it as a potential strategic discovery.
• Trust and family estrangement: Xue Ye has few people he trusts, while Qian Renxue’s thoughts about Bibi Dong expose the pain beneath her composure.

Key events

• In the Sky Screen, Lin Fan completes a thirty-meter blast furnace after seven days and nights of exhausting work. He smelts high-toughness special steel and orders his troops to convert smoothbore cannons into high-pressure rifled mortars, preparing armor-piercing shells for an approaching Soul Saint-level enemy.
• In the real world, Heaven Dou’s forces excavate beneath Tack Town and discover a translucent phantom of Lin Fan’s furnace. It is becoming solid by consuming the surrounding earth, confirming that creations in the Sky Screen can manifest in reality.
• Emperor Xue Ye resolves to seize the furnace and its weapons, seeing them as the means to command a power beyond the gods. He orders the site secured and prepares to go there himself.
• Spirit Hall arrives to claim the site, threatening the Heaven Dou forces. The Heaven Dou Empire’s allies respond: Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect leader Yu Yuanzhen confront Spirit Hall.
• Yu Yuanzhen has joined Heaven Dou because Xue Ye promised to return his son, Yu Xiaogang, unharmed. Xue privately threatens to kill Yu Xiaogang if Yu Yuanzhen changes sides.
• With Heaven Dou, Spirit Hall, the Upper Three Sects, and civilian rebels converging around the pit, a continent-shaking battle seems imminent.
• Meanwhile, in the Sky Screen, Lin Fan faces the approaching stone-armored Two-Headed Stone Ape Martial Soul Avatar and its Soul Emperor followers. He loads a massive armor-piercing shell into his newly rifled mortar.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan is shown as an obsessive, relentless engineer and commander, turning industrial innovation into a direct weapon against a formidable supernatural opponent.
• Xue Ye shifts from discovery to ruthless ambition, determined to control the furnace and willing to use Yu Xiaogang’s life to secure Yu Yuanzhen’s loyalty.
• Yu Yuanzhen reluctantly allies with Heaven Dou to recover his son, while making clear that Xue Ye must honor his promise.
• Spirit Hall’s leaders, Yue Guan and Gui Mei, assert their claim aggressively; Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen’s arrival prevents them from dominating the site uncontested.

Significant themes

• Technology versus supernatural power: Lin Fan’s industrial weapons challenge Soul Masters’ traditionally overwhelming strength.
• Power and possession: The furnace’s real-world manifestation turns a discovery into a prize that drives rival factions toward war.
• Parallel worlds and consequences: Events in the Sky Screen directly reshape the real world, linking Lin Fan’s inventions to political conflict.
• Coercion and loyalty: Xue Ye’s bargain—and threat—shows how family ties are manipulated in the struggle for power.

Key plot points and events

• In the Sky Screen, Spirit Hall’s force attacks Tack Town, led by a level-71 Soul Saint whose enormous Earth Two-Headed Ape avatar threatens to smash the defenders.
• Lin Fan, exhausted but confident, orders his newly built 105-millimeter rifled mortar to fire. Its armor-piercing shell tears through the Soul Saint’s avatar and kills him in a devastating internal explosion.
• The shocked Soul Emperors and Soul Kings flee, while the cannon’s success is broadcast across the real world.
• The Titled Douluo watching the projection are shaken by the weapon’s power. Sword Douluo Chen Xin, in particular, wonders whether even his celebrated Seven Kill Sword could stop a shell—or survive a barrage.
• In reality, the industrial Blast Furnace and Lin Fan’s weapons blueprints materialize near Tack Town. Spirit Hall’s Yue Guan tries to seize them, while Heaven Dou’s Emperor Xue Ye orders his Dragon Soul Guards to defend them and calls on Chen Xin to stop Yue Guan.
• As rival forces rush toward the prizes, a Spirit Hall Soul King triggers a buried Black Powder landmine—another weapon prepared in the Sky Screen but manifested in reality. The blast kills him and throws nearby Heaven Dou guards aside, halting the advance.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan demonstrates that his engineering can overcome the continent’s conventional strength. His calm, almost exhilarated response to the Soul Saint contrasts with the terror his cannon inspires.
• Chen Xin experiences a rare crisis of confidence, questioning whether his sword can compete with modern weapons.
• Yue Guan quickly shifts from fear to greed, trying to claim the furnace and blueprints for Spirit Hall.
• Xue Ye responds decisively, ordering his forces to protect the industrial technology and directing Chen Xin against Yue Guan.
• Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou’s forces turn from confrontation into a scramble for Lin Fan’s inventions; the landmine abruptly disrupts both sides.

Significant themes

• Technology overturns established power: A cannon makes a Soul Saint’s formidable strength irrelevant and unsettles even Titled Douluo.
• The spread of innovation changes the balance of power: The furnace, blueprints, and landmine bring the Sky Screen’s weapons into the real world, extending the conflict beyond the projection.
• Fear and greed shape reactions to power: Soul Hall’s troops flee after the cannon strike, while Yue Guan’s desire to possess the technology soon outweighs his fear.
• Escalating consequences: Lin Fan’s inventions do not merely win battles in the Sky Screen; they trigger a dangerous real-world contest for control.

Key plot points and events

• In the real world, a Spirit Hall Soul King is obliterated by a buried mine near Tack Town. Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, Ghost Douluo, Sword Douluo, Yu Yuanzhen, and the Royal Dragon Soul Guards realize the earth may be riddled with similar weapons and dare not approach.
• In the Sky Screen’s version of the battle, Lin Fan’s two hundred young defenders win a costly victory against Spirit Hall’s forces. The mortals celebrate their proof that ordinary people can defeat powerful Soul Masters.
• Lin Fan dismisses the victory as inefficient. He criticizes the smoke, slow loading, and vulnerability of their weapons, then orders a major upgrade: bolt-action rifles, smokeless powder, and breech-loading cannons with recoil mechanisms.
• Alarmed by the Sky Screen’s escalating weapons technology, Emperor Xue Ye orders the area around Tack Town sealed and rushes to the Royal Death Prison. He orders Yu Xiaogang’s already-damaged mind searched for any hidden knowledge or blueprints that might help counter Lin Fan.
• The mental Soul Douluo force their way into Yu Xiaogang’s Sea of Consciousness, causing him excruciating pain. The Sky Screen then unexpectedly shows the real-world prison, leaving the continent watching to learn what the search will uncover.

Character developments

• Lin Fan remains confident and dismissive of conventional victories. Rather than celebrating, he focuses on improving his weapons and seeks to make the battlefield lethal even to exceptional Soul Masters.
• The young defenders, including Stone, move from reverence for Soul Masters toward confidence in knowledge and collective action. Their victory gives them a sense of liberation from the limits imposed by rank.
• Xue Ye shifts from fear to desperate, ruthless action. Convinced that Lin Fan’s weapons threaten the entire Soul Master order, he is willing to destroy Yu Xiaogang’s mind to obtain answers.
• Yu Xiaogang is shown as mentally broken and physically tortured, unable to meaningfully resist or explain himself.

Significant themes

• Technology versus supernatural power: Ordinary weapons can kill powerful Soul Masters, destabilizing a world built around spiritual hierarchy.
• Progress and escalation: Each victory reveals flaws that prompt Lin Fan to develop still more destructive technology.
• Fear overriding morality: Xue Ye and his advisers abandon compassion when they believe their world faces an existential threat.
• Knowledge as power: The real world’s leaders hope Yu Xiaogang’s mind contains the information needed to meet the technological challenge.

Character interactions

• Yue Guan and the other powerful Soul Masters confront the terrifying implications of the mine but remain wary of approaching the battlefield.
• Lin Fan tempers the defenders’ celebration with criticism, then gives them a new industrial and military objective.
• Xue Ye rejects the mental Soul Douluo’s warning about Yu Xiaogang’s fragile condition and commands them to search him regardless of the consequences.
• The chapter ends with the Sky Screen turning the search into a spectacle, as the entire continent waits to see whether Yu Xiaogang holds the secrets Xue Ye seeks.

Plot and key events

• In the Sky Screen world, Lin Fan turns the remote Thunder base into a heavy-industry center. After years of punishing work, he completes a steam engine, unlocking mechanized production.
• Steam power drives lathes, forging presses, and furnaces. The base produces smokeless powder and manufactures a Mosin-Nagant-style five-shot bolt-action rifle.
• Lin Fan demonstrates the rifle’s range and power by striking granite at a thousand meters. He orders his recruits to replace their old muzzle-loaders and directs the workshops to begin making breech-loading rifled howitzers.
• The industrial breakthrough appears in the real world, where Douluo’s leaders watch the Sky Screen and recognize that mass-produced weapons could overturn the continent’s existing order.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan moves from exhausted inventor to commanding industrial and military leader. His triumph at creating a reliable power source gives way to bold plans for mass rearmament and a fortress that even the gods cannot breach. He rallies his commoner recruits with forceful orders.
• Qian Daoliu, normally unwavering, is shaken by the discovery that mortals can create weapons independent of Soul Power. He fears this technology threatens not only Soul Masters but the gods’ authority.
• Ning Fengzhi despairs as he compares the rifle assembly line with the enormous cost and effort required to train a small number of Soul Masters. He shares his alarm with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
• Xue Ye and Dai Yutian, rulers of rival empires, react alike: both are horrified by the prospect of ordinary soldiers equipped with mass-produced rifles and artillery.

Significant themes

• Industrialization versus inherited power: Machines and repeatable production challenge a society built around rare Soul Master abilities.
• Technology as social upheaval: Weapons that commoners can use threaten the military, political, and religious hierarchies at once.
• Fear of mass production: The decisive change is not merely the rifle’s power, but the ability to manufacture it in large quantities.
• The cost and ambition of progress: Lin Fan’s intense labor produces a breakthrough that may transform warfare—and the foundations of the world.

Plot and key events

• Lin Fan completes the railway network at Thunderclap Arsenal Base, unlocking the Steam Heavy Armored Train. The immense, heavily plated train carries three rotating turrets armed with rifled howitzers, giving the army a fast-moving mobile fortress.
• Seeing the train as a direct threat to Spirit Hall’s rule, Pope Qian Xunji orders an all-out assault on Tack Town. He summons Titled Douluo, twenty powerful Soul Douluo, and six thousand elite Ironclad Holy Knights, ordering them to destroy the base and leave no survivors.
• The Sky Screen shows Spirit Hall’s forces advancing, while powerful figures in the real world watch in tense silence. Lin Fan loads a high-explosive armor-piercing shell into the train’s cannon and aims toward the approaching enemy.
• Xue Ye watches from Heaven Dou Imperial City and recognizes that the conflict has become a war between the established powers and ordinary people.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan is pleased that the armored train solves heavy artillery’s mobility problem. Confident in its firepower, he prepares to test it against Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Qian Xunji shifts from outrage to decisive aggression, viewing Lin Fan’s weapons as an existential challenge to Spirit Hall’s authority.
• Qian Daoliu watches his son’s response without intervening; even as a Limit Douluo, he is shaken by the train.
• Xue Ye is overwhelmed by the scale of the coming conflict and voices its historic significance.
• In the real world, major powers—including Sword Douluo and Thunder Douluo—watch the Sky Screen together, acutely aware that the battle may determine the continent’s future.

Significant themes

• Industry versus inherited power: Lin Fan’s technology lets commoners challenge a society ruled by Soul Masters.
• The cost of threatened authority: Spirit Hall responds to a new weapon with an extermination campaign.
• A turning point in history: The coming battle is framed as a choice between preserving the old hierarchy and ushering in an age of commoners.

Plot points

• Spirit Hall sends 6,000 Ironclad Holy Knights, twenty powerful Soul Saints, and two Titled Douluo to attack Lin Fan’s military-industrial base in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• The Soul Saints unleash their Martial Soul Avatars, expecting their supernatural power and the army’s armor to overwhelm the defenders.
• Lin Fan orders six rail-mounted howitzers to fire armor-piercing explosive shells while ordinary soldiers use bolt-action rifles to lay down overlapping fire.
• The bombardment annihilates the Soul Saints’ formation and devastates the Holy Knights. Their spiritual defenses and heavy armor prove ineffective against modern artillery and bullets.
• A Sky Screen broadcasts the massacre to the present-day factions gathered above Tack Town. Terrified Titled Douluo realize that the manifested Blast Furnace—and possibly its land mines and cannons—could threaten them too, prompting calls to retreat.
• Lin Fan then turns his guns on the two Titled Douluo who have emerged and orders the turrets to fire.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains composed and confident amid overwhelming supernatural power, relying on engineering, disciplined troops, and physical laws. After destroying the vanguard, he immediately targets the remaining Titled Douluo.
• Chen Xin, a level-ninety-six Peak Douluo famed for his sword, is shaken by the destruction of the Soul Saints. He questions the value of a lifetime spent cultivating power that modern weapons can overwhelm.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo abandons confrontation for urgent retreat, fearing the real-world consequences of the Blast Furnace and land mines.
• Xue Ye, watching from Heaven Dou Imperial City, responds with bleak resignation, seeing the defeat as the collapse of Soul Master prestige and traditional imperial authority.
• Spirit Hall’s forces, who treat ordinary soldiers as helpless “ants,” are reduced to a rout by Lin Fan’s artillery and infantry.

Significant themes

• Industrial warfare versus traditional power: Technology decisively defeats Soul Master abilities, elite warriors, and armor.
• The limits of inherited authority: The battle challenges the long-standing dominance of Soul Masters and empires.
• Fear and paradigm shift: Witnessing the massacre forces even the continent’s strongest fighters to reconsider what power means.
• Collective discipline versus individual strength: Lin Fan’s coordinated machinery and ordinary troops overcome opponents who rely on exceptional personal abilities.

Key plot points and events

• After artillery destroys the Spirit Hall army’s Soul Saints, its two Titled Douluo abandon the front and race along the canyon walls to attack Lin Fan directly.
• Lin Fan reveals that his defenses extend beyond the artillery. He orders the second line—reinforced-concrete bunkers equipped with Maxim machine guns—to open fire.
• The Sky Screen’s power manifests those defenses in real-world Tack Town, along with barbed wire and blueprints for the machine gun and concrete.
• A greedy Spirit Hall Soul Douluo leads hundreds of elites in a charge to seize the blueprints, dismissing the defenses as ordinary materials.
• The bunkers’ automatic machine guns unleash intersecting streams of bullets, killing the Soul Douluo and wiping out the charging force within seconds.
• Watching Titled Douluo and other powerful fighters are horrified by the weapons’ speed and lethality. The Heaven Dou Empire’s troops retreat rather than risk approaching the fortified position.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains calm under threat and reveals his preparations and tactical foresight. He directs the defense through loudspeakers, turning the attackers’ flank maneuver into a trap.
• The two Spirit Hall Titled Douluo shift from anger and confidence to an urgent attempt at assassination, but the scene emphasizes the peril of reaching Lin Fan through his layered defenses.
• The Level 83 Soul Douluo acts out of greed and overconfidence, disregarding warnings and leading his followers to their deaths.
• The observing powerhouses, including Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, are shaken by technology that works without Soul Power and surpasses their expectations of combat.
• The Heaven Dou soldiers initially stand ready to fight, but retreat together after witnessing the machine guns’ destructive power.

Significant themes

• Technology versus supernatural power: Conventional weapons and engineering can overwhelm Soul Masters, challenging the continent’s assumptions about strength.
• Hubris and greed bring ruin: The Soul Douluo’s contempt for unfamiliar defenses leads directly to his destruction and that of his troops.
• Preparation and strategic depth: Lin Fan’s defenses are not limited to the visible artillery; the layered fortress makes a direct assault costly and nearly impossible.
• Fear as a weapon: The machine guns’ slaughter transforms the bunkers into a psychological barrier, forcing even powerful opponents to reconsider advancing.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• An industrial artillery barrage annihilates twenty Soul Saints, demonstrating how conventional military weapons can overwhelm the Soul Master world’s established fighters.
• Two Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall’s Elder Hall launch a direct assault on Lin Fan and the armored train, using powerful Ninth Soul Skills and attempting to kill the commander.
• Lin Fan counters with concealed defenses: high-pressure antiaircraft guns and a massive anti-materiel rifle firing a tungsten-alloy armor-piercing bullet.
• Using predictive aim rather than trying to track the attackers’ supernatural speed, Lin Fan fires. The rifle round kills one Titled Douluo outright; the antiaircraft guns shred the other’s legs and leave him crippled.
• The Sky Screen broadcasts the defeat, shocking observers across the Soul Master world. Qian Daoliu realizes that even a Limit Douluo may be vulnerable to the new weapons. Ning Fengzhi concludes that the old order’s power has been shattered.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains calm and confident under attack. He relies on planning, engineering, and scientific weapons rather than trying to match his enemies’ Soul Power. His victory confirms him as a force capable of overturning the existing order.
• The two Titled Douluo abandon their earlier confidence and coordinate an assault, but their supernatural abilities cannot overcome the speed and force of modern firearms. One dies without understanding what struck him; the other’s attempted escape fails.
• Qian Daoliu shifts from the certainty of a powerful elder to fearful recognition that his own strength may no longer protect him.
• Ning Fengzhi sees the defeat not as an isolated battle but as the end of the institutions that dominated the old era.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo react with terror after witnessing their fellow elder’s death.

Significant themes

• Technology versus inherited power: Industrial weapons defeat combatants whose strength once seemed unmatched.
• The old order collapsing: The battle symbolizes a historical turning point for Spirit Hall, the sects, and the empires.
• Adaptation and preparation: Lin Fan wins by anticipating his opponents’ movement and deploying layered defenses rather than relying on brute force.
• The limits of individual strength: Even extraordinary speed, spiritual perception, and Soul Skills prove insufficient against weapons that act faster than their users can react.

Plot points and events

• In the Sky Screen’s canyon battlefield, Lin Fan kills two Titled Douluo with a single anti-materiel rifle shot each. He mocks their weak defenses and demands his reward.
• The system grants him an achievement and completes the railway network. Tracks spread automatically through the mountains, unlocking the armored train’s deep-mountain mode. Lin Fan celebrates the new supply line and orders his forces to build up for future attacks.
• The railway’s completion has an unexpected effect: identical tracks force their way into existence in the real world, following the route laid inside the Sky Screen. The phenomenon convinces witnesses that the Sky Screen is transforming reality.
• Yu Yuanzhen realizes Lin Fan’s construction can reshape the real world, while Yue Guan flees toward Spirit City in terror.
• In the Sky Screen, Qian Xunji calls Lin Fan a threat and mobilizes Spirit Hall for a continent-wide campaign against him.
• In reality, Bibi Dong reacts with fury to Qian Xunji’s threat. She orders Spirit Hall’s forces to protect the new railway, declaring it sacred and threatening to destroy any faction that damages or obstructs it.
• The chapter ends as the real-world observers hear the Sky Screen train’s whistle echo through the newly materialized tracks, apparently crossing the dimensional barrier.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains confident and irreverent after defeating powerful enemies. He treats the battle as a game and sees the railway as a strategic tool for industrial expansion.
• Yu Yuanzhen shifts from a formidable leader to a frightened witness, recognizing that Lin Fan’s influence extends beyond the Sky Screen.
• Yue Guan abandons his ambitions and flees, prioritizing survival over Spirit Hall’s plans.
• Qian Xunji responds to defeat and the spreading railway with escalating aggression, ordering a massive purge and planning to lead the attack himself.
• Bibi Dong reveals intense loyalty to Lin Fan and his vision of equality. She defies Qian Xunji’s hostility by committing real Spirit Hall to defend the railway, even at the risk of war with the rest of the continent.

Significant themes

• Technology overturning established power: Industrial weapons and railways threaten the dominance of Soul Masters and traditional military strength.
• Reality and the Sky Screen merging: Lin Fan’s actions in one spacetime now physically alter the other, raising the stakes beyond either world.
• Fear versus adaptation: Some characters flee or lash out, while Bibi Dong embraces the change and protects it.
• Loyalty and competing legacies: Qian Xunji seeks to preserve Spirit Hall’s old order; Bibi Dong champions Lin Fan’s transformative path, even against her own institution’s leadership.

Plot points and events

• Lin Fan fires his anti-materiel rifle at close range as Pope Qian Xunji prepares to strike. The bullet pierces Qian Xunji’s Soul Power defense and explodes inside his head, killing him instantly and destroying his body.
• Qian Xunji’s Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul dissolves, while the Spirit Hall army loses morale and flees. Lin Fan’s system declares the defensive campaign won and Volume One’s main quest complete.
• In the real world, the Sky Screen’s broadcast shocks the continent’s Soul Masters and rulers. Commoners interpret the pope’s death as proof that gods and Soul Masters can be defeated by mortal technology, and uprisings spread.
• Lin Fan celebrates the victory, orders his recruits to salvage enemy Storage Soul Tools and keep production running, and announces plans to build tanks, aircraft, and artillery.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains pragmatic and unsentimental: he treats Qian Xunji as a defeated “final boss,” then turns the victory into a call for continued industrial development.
• Chen Xin, watching the broadcast, suffers a crisis of faith. Qian Xunji’s death shatters his belief in the supremacy of the sword; his Soul Power goes out of control, and his Seven Kill Sword cracks. Ning Fengzhi tries to stabilize him.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei are terrified by the pope’s death and lose confidence in their own power.
• Xue Ye watches the growing unrest and realizes the empires’ and Soul Masters’ authority is collapsing.

Significant themes

• Technology versus supernatural power: Modern weaponry overturns the continent’s assumption that spiritual strength makes its elites invulnerable.
• The collapse of divine authority: Qian Xunji’s death turns the idea that gods can be killed into a tangible political force.
• Revolution and mass empowerment: Lin Fan’s victory inspires ordinary people to challenge nobles and Soul Masters.
• Industrial progress: The battle’s end marks not a return to peace but the beginning of a new era driven by manufacturing and further technological advancement.

Key plot points and events

• After Lin Fan kills Pope Qian Xunji and destroys the Ironclad Holy Knight Corps, Spirit City is thrown into panic and the old order appears to be collapsing.
• Bibi Dong leaves her confinement, kills the guards who try to stop her, and launches a coup. Commoner Soul Masters and stewards—emboldened by Lin Fan’s equality declaration—help her seize the Papal Palace and capture Qian Xunji’s remaining supporters.
• Lin Fan watches the takeover through the Sky Screen and confirms an alliance with Bibi Dong.
• Qian Daoliu, Spirit Hall’s Level 99 Grand Enshrined, arrives but refrains from attacking. Recognizing that Spirit Hall cannot withstand Lin Fan’s industrial weapons, he sets aside his personal grief and endorses Bibi Dong as its new leader.
• Bibi Dong abolishes Spirit Hall and establishes the Spirit Republic, naming herself its first president and Yu Xiaogang—meaning Lin Fan in the Sky Screen’s altered timeline—its founding Sage. The Republic rejects worship of the gods in favor of “truth,” symbolized by a new flag bearing gears and crossed cannons.
• In the real world, Qian Renxue is shaken by how differently her family’s history unfolds in the Sky Screen. The real Bibi Dong watches the new timeline and reacts with ecstatic, painful devotion to its Yu Xiaogang.

Character developments and interactions

• Bibi Dong transforms from a guarded prisoner into a decisive revolutionary leader. She uses Lin Fan’s ideology and support to take power, while her counterpart in the real world projects intense longing onto the version of Yu Xiaogang who liberated her through action rather than romance.
• Qian Daoliu chooses Spirit Hall’s survival over vengeance. He recognizes Lin Fan’s weapons as a threat to the old hierarchy and accepts Bibi Dong’s rule as the only viable course.
• Lin Fan remains detached and strategic, treating the coup as a planned political development and formally aligning with Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue struggles to reconcile her painful real-world family history with the heroic, public revolution shown on the Sky Screen.
• Bibi Dong’s relationship with Lin Fan is presented as political and ideological in the Sky Screen, but as an emotionally charged ideal in the real world.

Significant themes

• Industrial power versus divine authority: Cannons, rifles, trains, and factories undermine the dominance of gods and Soul Masters.
• Revolution and equality: Commoners, previously confined to the bottom of Spirit Hall’s hierarchy, become the force that enables regime change.
• Power and pragmatism: Qian Daoliu abandons vengeance because survival requires accommodation with the new order.
• History and alternate selves: The Sky Screen’s altered timeline prompts characters to question how different circumstances reshape identity, ambition, and relationships.
• Liberation and devotion: Bibi Dong’s political emancipation is entwined with her idealization of the man she believes made it possible.

Key plot points and events

• In the Sky Screen’s alternate timeline, Lin Fan reviews the Republic’s disciplined modern army, complete with rifles and a heavily armed train. The crowds hail him as the Republic’s founding Sage.
• The display shatters the morale of Heaven Dou’s Royal Dragon Soul Guard in the present: soldiers abandon their weapons and kneel, overwhelmed by the technological gulf.
• Emperor Xue Ye, watching Lin Fan’s review, dies after a fatal surge of emotion, leaving Heaven Dou’s rule in crisis.
• News of his death helps trigger a civilian uprising against the nobility. Spirit Hall moves to exploit the collapse: Bibi Dong orders its Ironclad Knights to advance on Heaven Dou City and crush remaining resistance.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan appears as a revered leader in the alternate timeline; his silent review becomes a symbol of the new age and has a devastating effect on the present.
• Xue Ye goes from plotting to preserve his empire to recognizing that its military and political order cannot withstand the future shown on the Sky Screen. He dies in despair.
• Qian Renxue removes the crown-prince disguise she maintained for over a decade and accepts that Heaven Dou’s old order is finished. She credits Yu Xiaogang with destroying the Soul Master system.
• Bibi Dong responds to Lin Fan’s rise with intense devotion and ambition, framing Spirit Hall’s invasion as a way to clear the path for his new age.
• The Dragon Soul Guard undergoes a collective collapse, surrendering not to Spirit Hall but to the modern force represented by Lin Fan.

Significant themes

• Technological change overturning entrenched power: Modern weapons and organization make the traditional Soul Master military appear obsolete.
• The collapse of old institutions: Xue Ye’s death and the uprising signal the end of Heaven Dou’s imperial and noble order.
• Fear, awe, and political mobilization: The Sky Screen does more than reveal another timeline—it changes morale and drives real-world events.
• Revolution and its contradictions: Bibi Dong invokes a “new age” while preparing to establish it through military conquest.

Chapter Summary: “Awakening”

Key plot points and events

• During the founding celebration of the new Martial Soul Federation, Lin Fan believes he has completed a roleplaying game with an exceptionally high score. He thinks only about the points and rewards he expects to receive, unaware that his actions are changing the real world.
• The Sky Screen’s continent-wide comparison vote closes: Lin Fan receives 99.9% approval, while reality’s Yu Xiaogang receives 0.1%.
• The Heavenly Dao judges the real Yu Xiaogang unworthy and erases his body, soul, and existence. He dies in terror as his body crumbles into ash.
• The judgment then triggers a vast blessing for the commoners and low-ranking soul masters who supported Lin Fan. Their bloodline restrictions and “genetic lock” are broken, granting them control over mortal energy.
• Across the continent, formerly powerless people gain strength, scientific and industrial knowledge, and the ability to purify their martial souls. One enslaved boy’s rusty hoe becomes a multifunctional military-industrial wrench.
• The newly empowered masses proclaim their equality and call for the overthrow of nobles and soul-master elites, signaling the start of a continent-wide upheaval.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan stands as the celebrated founder of the Federation, but remains oblivious to the real-world consequences, interpreting the events as a successful game run.
• Yu Xiaogang is exposed and destroyed by the Heavenly Dao, his final attempt to protest going unheard.
• Bibi Dong watches Yu Xiaogang’s execution without sympathy, regarding his death as the fitting end of a painful past.
• The common people shift from oppressed spectators to empowered actors. The Heavenly Dao’s blessing gives them not only physical potential but also the knowledge and means to challenge the established order.

Significant themes

• Equality versus inherited hierarchy: The blessing breaks the biological and social barriers that kept ordinary people subordinate.
• Science and technology as liberation: Industrial knowledge and weapons become tools through which the oppressed can resist elite control.
• Justice and public judgment: The overwhelming vote determines Yu Xiaogang’s fate and triggers the world-changing reward.
• Unintended consequences: Lin Fan believes he is playing a game, while his choices reshape reality.
• Revolution and awakening: The chapter ends with the masses recognizing their power and preparing to overturn the old order.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Fan receives his first-dungeon settlement: an unprecedented SSS-rank rating, access to the All-Heavens Divine System Shop, a guaranteed divine draw, and one million system points.
• He orders the system to end the dungeon and return him to the real world. As the Sky Screen’s power fades, Lin Fan and the world it displayed begin to disappear.
• The system announces that the dungeon is cleared, the world’s timeline has been corrected, and the Sage’s godhead is departing.
• Across the continent, ordinary people and powerful figures alike beg Lin Fan to stay. The Sky Screen finally vanishes, leaving the world dark.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan is thrilled by his rewards and eager to move on, unaware of—or unconcerned with—the anguish his departure causes the people watching.
• Commoners and rebels, newly freed from oppression and newly exposed to mechanical knowledge, fear losing the person who gave them hope and direction.
• Chen Xin, once devoted to swordsmanship and convinced his blade could cut through all illusions, recognizes physics as a greater truth. He begs Lin Fan to teach humanity the “god-slaying” sword path.
• Yu Yuanzhen shares Chen Xin’s grief, realizing that the emerging knowledge may disappear just as they begin to understand it.
• Qian Renxue watches in tears as the figure who defeated the old order fades away.
• Bibi Dong, who had imagined Lin Fan—whom she calls “Xiao Gang”—as the man who rescued her and made her empress, abandons her usual dignity. Clutching their Elder Token, she desperately pleads for him to take her with him.

Significant themes

• Hope and dependence: Lin Fan has become a symbol of liberation, leaving people terrified that freedom and guidance will vanish with him.
• Knowledge as power: Physics offers even the old martial elites a glimpse of a higher truth, but its future remains uncertain.
• The cost of departure: Lin Fan’s successful escape and rewards contrast sharply with the grief of those whose lives he transformed.
• The end of an era: The Sky Screen’s disappearance closes the chapter on a world-changing revolution and leaves its legacy in doubt.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• The first Sky Screen instance ends with Lin Fan earning a perfect SSS rating, one million system points, access to the system shop, and a guaranteed god-tier draw.
• His next assigned role is Tang San, with the goal of repairing Tang San’s reputation and portraying him as a flawless saint. Lin Fan angrily lists what he sees as Tang San’s hypocrisy: hoarding cultivation methods and Immortal Herbs, monopolizing resources, and exercising godly power for personal benefit.
• Lin Fan decides to “speedrun” the task through radical generosity: publish millions of copies of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, distribute Hidden Weapon designs, open the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to everyone, and promote peace between humans and Soul Beasts.
• The system sends him ten thousand years into a parallel future, the era of the Peerless Tang Sect. There, Tang Sect and Shrek Academy dominate society, while ordinary people and unaffiliated Soul Masters remain disadvantaged.
• A Sky Screen appears across both the mortal world and Divine Realm, broadcasting Lin Fan’s private criticism and plans. Viewers see the young, played-by-Lin-Fan Tang San carrying manuscripts to a printer to make the secret arts public.
• The broadcast sparks a crisis of faith among people who recognize the contrast between Lin Fan’s proposed openness and the institutions’ real-world monopoly. In the Divine Realm, Tang San attacks the Sky Screen in rage, but the God King Throne cracks under the backlash.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan shifts from celebrating his first success to treating the Tang San scenario as an opportunity to expose and reverse the character’s alleged selfishness. He believes he is merely gaming an isolated instance and does not know that his words are being broadcast to the future.
• Tang San is presented as a revered but deeply threatened ruler. Public criticism strips away his righteous image, provoking fury and an attempt to destroy the Sky Screen.
• The people of the future begin questioning the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy after seeing the principles their institutions claim to uphold contradicted by their control of knowledge and resources.
• The Divine Realm’s leaders, including the God of Destruction, Goddess of Life, and God of Evil, are alarmed that the Sky Screen has bypassed their defenses.

Significant themes

• Public image versus private conduct: Tang San’s saintly reputation is challenged by accusations of hypocrisy and self-interest.
• Knowledge and resource monopolies: Lin Fan’s plan to share cultivation techniques and Immortal Herbs highlights the social cost of elite control.
• Faith and legitimacy: The Sky Screen turns private criticism into a public reckoning, showing how quickly authority can weaken when people see contradictions.
• Unintended consequences: Lin Fan thinks he is manipulating a game, while his actions trigger upheaval in a real parallel world.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Lin Fan awakens in his second roleplay scenario as six-year-old Tang San. The system tasks him with portraying Tang San as a genuine saint and reaching a perfect public image.
• Rejecting the original Tang San’s secrecy and hypocrisy, Lin Fan decides that the best way to appear selfless is to share everything. He spends the night carving and printing manuals containing the Tang Sect’s secret techniques, including the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Purple Demon Eye, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, and Hidden Weapon designs.
• The next morning, Lin Fan gives the manuals freely to Old Jack and then distributes them throughout Holy Soul Village. The system rewards his generosity, raising his roleplay score to 15%.
• Unbeknownst to Lin Fan, the Sky Screen broadcasts the scene ten thousand years into the future. In that era, the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy monopolize knowledge and opportunity, and ordinary people are excluded from advancement.
• The future public recognizes the manuals as techniques the Tang Sect has long restricted. Lin Fan’s generosity sparks outrage at the contrast between the supposedly saintly Tang San and the Tang Sect’s modern exploitation.
• Tang San, now a powerful god-king, panics when Lin Fan’s actions threaten the system of privilege and worship he built. He tries to destroy the Sky Screen but cannot reach it.
• The present-day Tang Sect leadership realizes its monopoly is exposed. As public faith in the Tang Sect and Sea God collapses, backlash reaches the Divine Realm: Tang San’s God King Throne cracks, and his divine core is damaged.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan/Tang San: Lin Fan turns the system’s demand for saintliness into a strategy of radical openness. He enjoys the easy score, unaware that his performance is transforming the future.
• Old Jack: He is astonished when Lin Fan gives him valuable techniques without asking for anything in return.
• Ordinary people ten thousand years later: The manuals give the oppressed hope, while the broadcast makes them question the institutions that have denied them knowledge.
• Tang San: His anger reveals that his public image of benevolence masks a deep investment in control, privilege, and worship. Lin Fan’s generosity is therefore an existential threat to him.
• Tang Sect and Shrek leaders: Their fear exposes their dependence on restricted knowledge and unequal arrangements.

Significant themes

• Knowledge as a public good: Sharing skills challenges institutions that use information to preserve power.
• Appearance versus reality: Lin Fan performs saintliness for the system, yet his actions are genuinely generous; the future’s Tang Sect, by contrast, invokes virtue while enforcing a monopoly.
• Power and faith: The chapter portrays public belief as a foundation of divine authority—and suggests that exposure and loss of trust can bring that authority down.
• Unintended consequences: Lin Fan thinks he is merely gaming a roleplay score, but his actions trigger a revolution in the future.

Key plot points and events

• Six-year-old Lin Fan, living as Tang San in the Sky Screen, refuses village elder Old Jack’s work-study place at Notting Academy. He privately rejects the original path, including becoming Yu Xiaogang’s pupil.
• Lin Fan reveals one hundred homemade Silent Sleeve Arrows and their blueprints. He claims he made them from scraps and gives them freely to Holy Soul Village so commoners can defend themselves.
• His speech condemns Soul Master privilege and says defensive weapons should not be hoarded. Old Jack and the villagers are moved to tears and hail him as a “Holy Son.”
• Lin Fan is secretly delighted: the display of generosity sharply raises his Sage Roleplay level. He thinks he has found an easy way to gain points, unaware that the Sky Screen’s events will reshape the future.
• Ten thousand years later, Tang Sect and Shrek leaders watch the scene and confront the gap between Lin Fan’s apparent ideals and their own institutions: they restrict weapon-making, sell Hidden Weapons at high prices, and profit from their control.
• Commoners, long burdened by poverty and class oppression, see the scene as proof that their leaders have betrayed the original vision. Anger erupts across the continent, and mass loss of faith generates a backlash against Sea God Tang San.
• In the Divine Realm, Tang San watches in fury as the backlash strikes his Divine Core. He coughs up divine blood before the God Realm Committee, while a crack marks his throne.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan/Tang San: Publicly performs a compassionate, self-sacrificing role; privately treats the gesture as a way to boost his roleplay score. His refusal to attend the academy and his free distribution of weapons set him against the original story’s expected course.
• Old Jack: Moves from hoping to secure a better future for Lin Fan through education to seeing him as a champion of the village. His tears and reverence reflect both gratitude and long-standing frustration with Soul Master elites.
• The villagers: Initially stunned by the weapons, they are persuaded by Lin Fan’s appeal and bow to him, seeing his gift as a rare act of solidarity.
• Modern Tang Sect and Shrek leaders: Their confidence gives way to shame and fear as they recognize that their policies contradict the generosity displayed in the Sky Screen.
• Commoners of the future: Their faith in the established order collapses; they redirect their reverence from the distant Sea God toward the young figure onscreen and openly condemn Tang San.
• Tang San in the Divine Realm: His anger at Lin Fan’s choices turns to humiliation and physical suffering when the loss of believers’ faith reaches him.

Significant themes

• Public image versus private motive: Lin Fan’s sincere-seeming generosity is also calculated roleplay, creating uncertainty about the meaning of his actions.
• Class power and access to technology: Weapons that could protect ordinary people have become expensive, tightly controlled commodities.
• Institutional hypocrisy and legacy: The Tang Sect and Shrek claim noble authority while betraying the ideals their ancestor appears to embody.
• Faith as political power: The commoners’ disillusionment becomes a supernatural force capable of harming a god.
• The long reach of history: A single act in the Sky Screen exposes generations of exploitation and triggers upheaval ten thousand years later.